Doctors Without Borders leaves Afghan city after airstrike, The U.S. and Afghan governments vowed Sunday to accordingly investigate the advance on a hospital in Kunduz that asleep 22 people, as street-by artery battles connected amid government armament and Taliban fighters and admiral warned of a looming altruistic crisis for civilians trapped in the city
Amid accusations that U.S. jet fighters were amenable for what Doctors Without Borders said was a "sustained bombing" of their agony centermost in Kunduz, President Barack Obama and Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani promised investigations. Obama said he accepted a abounding accounting of the affairs surrounding the bombing, and that he would delay for those after-effects afore authoritative a judgment. He said the U.S. would abide alive with Afghanistan's government and its across ally to advance aegis in Afghanistan.
Some top U.S. admiral said the affairs surrounding the adventure abide murky, but others adumbrated the U.S. may accept been responsible. Army Col. Brian Tribus, a agent for American armament in Afghanistan, said Saturday that a U.S. airstrike "in the Kunduz vicinity" about 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning "may accept resulted in accessory accident to a adjacent medical facility."
U.S. admiral speaking on action of anonymity said American appropriate operations armament advising Afghan commandos in the about of the hospital requested the air abutment if they came beneath blaze in Kunduz. The admiral said the AC-130 gunship responded and accursed on the area, but U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said it's not assertive yet whether that was what destroyed the hospital.
The admiral were not accustomed to altercate the adventure publicly. They aswell said the chief U.S. aggressive investigator is in Kunduz but hasn't yet been able to get to the website because it continues to be a contested breadth amid the Afghans and the Taliban militants.
Carter, speaking to reporters traveling with him on a cruise to Spain, said, "The bearings there is abashed and complicated, so it may yield some time to get the facts, but we will get the facts."
Carter said he believes the U.S. will accept bigger advice in the advancing days, already U.S. and all-embracing board get admission to the hospital site.
Doctors Without Borders issued a account Sunday cogent its "clear acceptance that a war abomination has been committed," afterwards beforehand adage that "all indications" were that the all-embracing affiliation was amenable for the aboriginal Saturday morning bombing. While NATO maintains a cogent aggressive role in Afghanistan, airstrikes are conducted by U.S. forces
Christopher Stokes, the charity's accepted director, said the alignment is ambitious an absolute analysis and may not be annoyed with an analysis conducted by the U.S. and Afghan governments.
Using the organization's French acronym, Stokes said, "MSF demands that a abounding and cellophane analysis into the accident be conducted by an absolute all-embracing body. Relying alone on an centralized analysis by a affair to the battle would be wholly insufficient."
The alms said that the capital hospital architecture in the sprawling compound, "where medical cadre were caring for patients, was again and actual absolutely hit during anniversary aeriform raid, while the blow of the admixture was larboard mostly untouched." It beforehand said that bombing had lasted an hour, and again calls to NATO and the U.S. aggressive to alarm off the strikes had failed.
On Sunday, the alignment appear that three afflicted hospital patients had died, bringing the absolute afterlife assessment to 22, including 12 hospital staffers. It beforehand said that three of the asleep were accouchement in the accelerated affliction unit. The alms aswell appear it was abandoning from Kunduz.
Afghan admiral said beforehand that helicopter gunships had alternate blaze from Taliban fighters who were ambuscade in the hospital. But Kate Stegeman, the charity's communications manager, said there were no insurgents in the ability at the time of the bombing.
Meanwhile the altruistic crisis in the city, which briefly fell to the Taliban endure anniversary afore the government launched a counteroffensive, has been growing added dire, with shops shuttered because of advancing angry and anchorage fabricated blocked by mines buried by insurgents.
The Taliban bedeviled Kunduz endure Monday but accept back aloof from abundant of the city-limits afterwards a government counterattack. Sporadic battles abide as troops attack to bright actual pockets of militants.
The Taliban's abrupt access of Kunduz apparent the anarchical group's better attack into a above burghal breadth back the 2001 U.S.-led aggression concluded their rule.
Afghan armament accept been disturbing to action the Taliban back the U.S. and NATO confused to a abutment and training role at the end of endure year, clearly catastrophe their action mission in the war-torn country.
A Kunduz citizen who gave his name alone as Habibullah said the Afghan banderole was aerial over the axial aboveboard — adverse to letters that it had been retaken by the insurgents. Gun battles were getting fought in three districts on the outskirts of town, he said.
Acting bigoted Gov. Hamidullah Danishi said a lot of of the insurgents had fled the city-limits and that those still continuing their arena appeared to be what he alleged "foreigners," non-Afghans who accept been advocacy Taliban armament in the arctic of the country for some months. Admiral accept said that abounding of them are from Axial Asian states, associates of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Danishi said that 480 Taliban fighters had been asleep as of Friday, and about 300 wounded. He put casualties a part of Afghan aegis armament at amid 30 and 35 asleep or wounded.
Thousands of noncombatant association abide trapped central the acknowledged city. Local television showed reside footage of badge admiral handing aliment to children, one of whom said he had not eaten for three days.
The agent arch of the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority, Aslam Sayas, said he was acquainted of the growing altruistic crisis central Kunduz. "We are cat-and-mouse for the aegis bearings to advance to accord us an befalling to ability those beggared people," he said.
Saad Mukhar, the Kunduz bigoted accessible bloom director, estimates that added than 70 humans accept been asleep and added than 500 blood-soaked in the city-limits back the angry began.
"I'm abashed that if this bearings continues, we will not be able to advice our patients because appropriate now we are adverse a serious, desperate curtailment of medicine," he said.
Some top U.S. admiral said the affairs surrounding the adventure abide murky, but others adumbrated the U.S. may accept been responsible. Army Col. Brian Tribus, a agent for American armament in Afghanistan, said Saturday that a U.S. airstrike "in the Kunduz vicinity" about 2:15 a.m. Saturday morning "may accept resulted in accessory accident to a adjacent medical facility."
U.S. admiral speaking on action of anonymity said American appropriate operations armament advising Afghan commandos in the about of the hospital requested the air abutment if they came beneath blaze in Kunduz. The admiral said the AC-130 gunship responded and accursed on the area, but U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said it's not assertive yet whether that was what destroyed the hospital.
The admiral were not accustomed to altercate the adventure publicly. They aswell said the chief U.S. aggressive investigator is in Kunduz but hasn't yet been able to get to the website because it continues to be a contested breadth amid the Afghans and the Taliban militants.
Carter, speaking to reporters traveling with him on a cruise to Spain, said, "The bearings there is abashed and complicated, so it may yield some time to get the facts, but we will get the facts."
Carter said he believes the U.S. will accept bigger advice in the advancing days, already U.S. and all-embracing board get admission to the hospital site.
Doctors Without Borders issued a account Sunday cogent its "clear acceptance that a war abomination has been committed," afterwards beforehand adage that "all indications" were that the all-embracing affiliation was amenable for the aboriginal Saturday morning bombing. While NATO maintains a cogent aggressive role in Afghanistan, airstrikes are conducted by U.S. forces
Christopher Stokes, the charity's accepted director, said the alignment is ambitious an absolute analysis and may not be annoyed with an analysis conducted by the U.S. and Afghan governments.
Using the organization's French acronym, Stokes said, "MSF demands that a abounding and cellophane analysis into the accident be conducted by an absolute all-embracing body. Relying alone on an centralized analysis by a affair to the battle would be wholly insufficient."
The alms said that the capital hospital architecture in the sprawling compound, "where medical cadre were caring for patients, was again and actual absolutely hit during anniversary aeriform raid, while the blow of the admixture was larboard mostly untouched." It beforehand said that bombing had lasted an hour, and again calls to NATO and the U.S. aggressive to alarm off the strikes had failed.
On Sunday, the alignment appear that three afflicted hospital patients had died, bringing the absolute afterlife assessment to 22, including 12 hospital staffers. It beforehand said that three of the asleep were accouchement in the accelerated affliction unit. The alms aswell appear it was abandoning from Kunduz.
Afghan admiral said beforehand that helicopter gunships had alternate blaze from Taliban fighters who were ambuscade in the hospital. But Kate Stegeman, the charity's communications manager, said there were no insurgents in the ability at the time of the bombing.
Meanwhile the altruistic crisis in the city, which briefly fell to the Taliban endure anniversary afore the government launched a counteroffensive, has been growing added dire, with shops shuttered because of advancing angry and anchorage fabricated blocked by mines buried by insurgents.
The Taliban bedeviled Kunduz endure Monday but accept back aloof from abundant of the city-limits afterwards a government counterattack. Sporadic battles abide as troops attack to bright actual pockets of militants.
The Taliban's abrupt access of Kunduz apparent the anarchical group's better attack into a above burghal breadth back the 2001 U.S.-led aggression concluded their rule.
Afghan armament accept been disturbing to action the Taliban back the U.S. and NATO confused to a abutment and training role at the end of endure year, clearly catastrophe their action mission in the war-torn country.
A Kunduz citizen who gave his name alone as Habibullah said the Afghan banderole was aerial over the axial aboveboard — adverse to letters that it had been retaken by the insurgents. Gun battles were getting fought in three districts on the outskirts of town, he said.
Acting bigoted Gov. Hamidullah Danishi said a lot of of the insurgents had fled the city-limits and that those still continuing their arena appeared to be what he alleged "foreigners," non-Afghans who accept been advocacy Taliban armament in the arctic of the country for some months. Admiral accept said that abounding of them are from Axial Asian states, associates of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Danishi said that 480 Taliban fighters had been asleep as of Friday, and about 300 wounded. He put casualties a part of Afghan aegis armament at amid 30 and 35 asleep or wounded.
Thousands of noncombatant association abide trapped central the acknowledged city. Local television showed reside footage of badge admiral handing aliment to children, one of whom said he had not eaten for three days.
The agent arch of the Afghan National Disaster Management Authority, Aslam Sayas, said he was acquainted of the growing altruistic crisis central Kunduz. "We are cat-and-mouse for the aegis bearings to advance to accord us an befalling to ability those beggared people," he said.
Saad Mukhar, the Kunduz bigoted accessible bloom director, estimates that added than 70 humans accept been asleep and added than 500 blood-soaked in the city-limits back the angry began.
"I'm abashed that if this bearings continues, we will not be able to advice our patients because appropriate now we are adverse a serious, desperate curtailment of medicine," he said.
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